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| 1 | 1816 | - 1816 was characterized as the year without any summer and frosts occurred during every month of the year.
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| 2 | 1817 | - James Monroe president of the USA 1817-1825.
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| 3 | 1819 | - René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
- Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain."
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| 4 | 1820 | - George IV. Ruler of England 1820-1830. House of Hanover: Eldest son of George III, Prince Regent, from Feb 1811.
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| 5 | 1823 | - Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
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| 6 | 1824 | - Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
- Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
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| 7 | 1825 | - John Quincy Adams president of the USA 1825-1829.
- This year marks the start of construction on the Ohio and Erie Canal.
- William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
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| 8 | 1827 | - Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone.
- John Walker invents the modern matches.
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| 9 | 1829 | - American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
- Andrew Jackson president of the USA 1829-1837.
- Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing.
- William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
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| 10 | 1830 | - Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
- William IV. Ruler of England 1830-1837. House of Hanover: 3rd son of George III, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
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| 11 | 1831 | - American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
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| 12 | 1832 | - Cholera epidemic claims 50 or more lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope.
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| 13 | 1833 | - *-* Cleveland Water Company organized by Philo Scovill and several associates.
- 12 Nov 1833 - 'Night the Stars Fell.' Great Leonid meteor shower seen across most of the U.S. So many meteors fell that the sky appeared to be on fire and in the middle of the night it was not dark.
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| 14 | 1834 | - Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
- Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
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| 15 | 1835 | - Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
- Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
- Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography.
- Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
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| 16 | 1836 | - "Bridge War" between residents of Ohio City and Cleveland.
- Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
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| 17 | 1837 | - English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
- Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
- Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
- Victoria. Ruler of England 1837-1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort.
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| 18 | 1838 | - Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
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| 19 | 1839 | - American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
- American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
- Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
- Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
- Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
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| 20 | 1840 | - Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
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| 21 | 1841 | - John Tyler president of the USA 1841-1845. John Tyler the first vice president to succeed to the presidency due to death of a president.
- Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
- William H. Harrison president of the USA. William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia 1841.
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| 22 | 1842 | - Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
- Paving the streets of Cleveland, Ohio commences by laying down planks on the roads.
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| 23 | 1843 | - Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
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| 24 | 1844 | - Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
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| 25 | 1845 | - American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
- James Polk president of the USA 1845-1849.
- Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
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| 26 | 1846 | - Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
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| 27 | 1847 | - Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
- Telegraph line installed between Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
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| 28 | 1849 | - Street lights are installed in Cleveland.
- Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
- Zachary Taylor president of the USA 1849-1850. Zachary Taylor died while in office.
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| 29 | 1850 | - Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent.
- Millard Fillmore president of the USA 1850-1853. Millard Fillmore, vice president under Zachary Taylor, sworn in as president after Taylor's death.
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| 30 | 1851 | - Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
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| 31 | 1853 | - Franklin Pierce president of the USA 1853-1857.
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| 32 | 1854 | - John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
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| 33 | 1855 | - Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
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| 34 | 1856 | - Cleveland water system goes into operation.
- Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
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| 35 | 1857 | - George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
- James Buchanan president of the USA 1857-1861.
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| 36 | 1858 | - First sewers in Cleveland. (Where did everything go prior to this?)
- Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
- Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
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| 37 | 1861 | - Abraham Lincoln president of the USA 1861-1865.
- Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
- Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
- USA Civil War begins.
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| 38 | 1862 | - Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
- Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
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| 39 | 1863 | - Cleveland starts home delivery of mail.
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| 40 | 1865 | - Abraham Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth on 14 Apr 1865 and dies the next day.
- Andrew Johnson president of the USA 1865-1869. Andrew Johnson, vice president under Abraham Lincoln, sworn in as president upon Lincoln's death.
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| 41 | 1866 | - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
- Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
- J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
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| 42 | 1867 | - Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter.
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| 43 | 1868 | - George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
- J P Knight invents traffic lights.
- Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
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| 44 | 1869 | - Ulysses Grant president of the USA 1869-1877.
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| 45 | 1872 | - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
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| 46 | 1873 | - Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
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